Civil War: T’Challa learns that capital punishment is wrong

MCU fans continue to come up with lame excuses to defend T'Challa refusing to save Killmonger's life.

Excuse #1: "T'Challa was honoring Killmonger's wish to die."

So if someone wants to jump off a bridge or jump off a building and kill himself, we should honor his wish and let him kill himself? And if a religious cult wants to commit mass suicide, we should honor their wish and let them kill themselves?

Excuse #2: "But Killmonger wanted to die so T'Challa can't go against Killmonger's wish to not be saved."

NOPE. Killmonger was T'Challa's prisoner so T'Challa would be required to save Killmonger.

Tom Brady's best friend Aaron Hernandez was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of parole. Hernandez hung himself in his prison cell last year.

But suppose a prison guard found Hernandez before Hernandez died and got Hernandez down from the noose and Hernandez was still alive but needed medical treatment. The warden can't say "Well, he tried to hang himself so clearly he wants to die so I'm not going to provide him the medical care to save him." Hernandez was the warden's prisoner so the warden would've been required to save Hernandez regardless if Hernandez wanted to die.

Moreover, Killmonger doesn't have any right to not receive medical treatment and not be saved because Wakanda is an absolute monarchy and the King has absolute power to decide who lives or who dies in Wakanda. So regardless if Killmonger wished to die, T'Challa had the absolute power to save Killmonger's life.

But T'Challa refused to save Killmonger's life, not because Killmonger wished to die, but because Killmonger had challenged T'Challa for the throne and had already defeated T'Challa in combat once before. So if Killmonger lived, Killmonger would be a huge threat toT'Challa's throne. That's why T'Challa couldn't let Killmonger live. T'Challa had to eliminate the biggest threat to his throne.